Fungalpedia – Note 1783, Pezizaceae
Pezizaceae Dumort.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae,, Pezizomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Pezizaceae taxa are mainly saprobic on soil, sand, clay, limestone, burnt ground, dung and wood (Petersen 1967, 1985). Some species form ectomycorrhizal associations (Maia et al. 1996 and references therein). Taxa are primarily recorded from temperate zones and arcticalpine areas but a few taxa are strictly tropical (Hansen et al. 2001). Ascomata show great variation including epigeous, sessile or stipitate, cupulate, discoid, turbinate, pulvinate or sparassoid apothecia, or semi-hypogeous to hypogeous, closed, folded to solid truffle-like taxa. Anatomical and biochemical diversity is found in spore discharge mechanisms, amyloid reaction of asci, spore shape, ornamentation, and guttulation, pigmentation of the paraphyses, and excipulum structure (Hansen et al. 2001). Asexual morphs are hyphomycetous. Conidiophores are septate, straight, branched towards the apex. Conidiogenous hyphae are holothallic, integrated or discrete, brown to pale brown. Conidial secession is schizolytic. Conidia are cylindrical, truncated at the ends and sometimes rounded at the apex (Carmo et al. 2014). Recent studies are those of Trappe et al. (2010), Lantieri and Pfister (2010), Rubio et al. (2010), Barseghyan and Wasser (2011), Jamali and Banihashemi (2011), Kovacs et al. (2011), Hu et al. (2012), Lantieri et al. (2012), Moreno et al. (2012), Salerni et al. (2013), Trappe et al. (2014), Carmo et al. (2014) and Cabero et al. (2016).
Type genus: Peziza Dill. ex Fr., Systema Mycologicum 2(1): 40 (1822).
References
Maia LC, Yano AM, Kimbrough JW 1996 – Species of Ascomycota forming ectomycorrhizae. Mycotaxon 67:371–390.
Petersen RH 1967 – Notes on clavarioid fungi. VII. Redefinition of the Clavaria vernalis, C. mucida complex. Am Midl Nat 77:205–221.
Petersen RH 1985 – Notes on Clavarioid Fungi. XIX. Colored illustrations of selected taxa, with comments on Cantharellus. Nova Hedwig 42:151–160.